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1. www.forbes.com › is-humor-still-acceptable-at-workIs Humor Still Acceptable At Work? - Forbes

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   Jul 9, 2023 · In the context of work, humor is frequently linked to employee creativity, team morale, managerial and leadership effectiveness, team creativity and performance, and healthier, stronger, more ...

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3. blogs.lse.ac.uk › businessreview › 2021/04/28Not a joke: leveraging humour at work increases performance ...

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   Apr 28, 2021 · An organisational culture that embraces innovation with a smile can improve openness to ideas, risk-taking and performance. And to better understand the impact humour has in the workplace, more experimental research is needed to test the benefits and downsides of humour interventions and how to best leverage humour to achieve positive work ...

4. hbr.org › 2020 › 07Sarcasm, Self-Deprecation, and Inside Jokes: A User’s Guide ...

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   Humor helps build interpersonal trust and high-quality work relationships and influences behaviors and attitudes that matter to leadership effectiveness, including employee performance, job ...

5. hbr.org › 2021 › 02How to Be Funny at Work - Harvard Business Review

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   Feb 5, 2021 · Next, try some simple attempts at humor that offer both truth and surprise; even something as simple as a clever sign-off can bring a smile to someone’s face. Finally, build signature stories ...

6. hbr.org › 2014 › 05Leading with Humor - Harvard Business Review

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   The workplace needs laughter. According to research from institutions as serious as Wharton, MIT, and London Business School, every chuckle or guffaw brings with it a host of business benefits.

7. knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu › article › using-humorUsing Humor in the Office: When It Works, When It Backfires

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   Oct 4, 2016 · According to Wharton research, a sense of humor, when deftly and appropriately used, can enhance workplace status and perception of one’s competence. That’s one of the findings of the research ...

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   Why is humor important in the workplace?

   • It is a consistent indicator of emotional intelligence, and actual intelligence. In the context of work, humor is frequently linked to employee creativity, team morale, managerial and leadership effectiveness, team creativity and performance, and healthier, stronger, more effective organizational cultures.

   Is Humor Still Acceptable At Work? - Forbes

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   Does Humor improve work performance?

   • More specifically, Mesmer-Magnus et al.’s (2012) review concluded that positive humor in the workplace led to enhanced work performance, job satisfaction, and group cohesion.

   The Use of Humor in Employee-to-Employee Workplace Communicatio…

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   What is workplace humour?

   • Teresa Almeida and Cecily Josten look at the research on workplace humour and write that having, and showing, a sense of humour is a way to demonstrate authenticity and come across as more human.

   Not a joke: leveraging humour at work increases performance, individual

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   Does Humor increase or decrease status in Risky Business?

   • That’s one of the findings of the research paper, “Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status,” by Maurice Schweitzer, Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions; doctoral candidate Brad Bitterly, and Alison Wood Brooks, a Harvard University assistant professor.

   Using Humor in the Office: When It Works, When It Backfires

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   Is humor risky?

   • Maurice Schweitzer: Humor is risky. Humor can signal competence and confidence and increase our status. But sometimes humor can fail because it’s inappropriate, because it’s just not very funny or because we overdo it. In those cases, we signal low competence and that harms our status. And in some cases we’ve seen people get fired because of it.

   Using Humor in the Office: When It Works, When It Backfires

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   How do we bring more humor into the workplace?

   • Summary. Research shows that teams that laugh together are more engaged and creative. So how do we bring more humor into the workplace, even in trying times? First, recognize that you don’t have to be a class clown or a comedian to be funny. Everyone has their own humor style, and studies show that any kind of levity brings benefits.

   How to Be Funny at Work - Harvard Business Review

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9. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullThe Use of Humor in Employee-to-Employee Workplace ...

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   Jan 6, 2022 · In transferring this understanding of humor in communication to the workplace, Plester (2016) recognized different organizational humor roles at work. “Jokers” (e.g., group leaders), define the humor agenda; “gatekeepers” (e.g., human resource managers), delineate the barriers of acceptable humor, and lastly; “the disengaged” (e.g., any employee) who may be the target of such humor.